Contact Information
Office: E62-524
Tel: (617) 253-0283
Fax: (617) 258-6786
E-mail: rgibbons@mit.edu
Support Staff
Name: Rose Ziv Carpenter
Tel: (617) 253-9746
E-mail: roseziv@mit.edu
Area
Economics, Finance and Accounting
Group(s)- Institute for Work and Employment Research
Robert Gibbons
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Professor of Applied Economics
Robert Gibbons is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Gibbons is also the co-principal investigator for the Program on Innovation in Markets and Organizations at MIT Sloan. He studies the design and performance of organizations and contracts, especially “relational contracts”—agreements so rooted in the parties’ particular circumstances that they are not written down, so that disputes cannot be adjudicated by outsiders such as courts …